The American Indian Movement (AIM) is an American Indian movement founded in 1968 and initially centered in urban areas to address systemic issues of poverty, discrimination, and police brutality against American Indians. AIM would widen its focus to many Indigenous Tribal issues that American Indian groups have faced, including treaty rights, high rates of unemployment, lack of American Indian subjects in education, and the preservation of Indigenous cultures.
The American Indian Movement helped advocate for Indigenous rights on a global scale. It was an active and highly effective element in the broader push for civil rights in the 1960s and 1970s, repeatedly extracting concessions by the federal government to alter the policy towards Native Americans.